On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 3:25 PM Chuck S <chucksim@mindspring.com> wrote:

I'm also planning on finally getting around to reading "Cursed Child" in honor of the 20th anniversary. If Bruce or Todd have read it, any comments? Btw, the play will be touring the US next year. Maybe worth a UTS reunion?

It really is hard to believe HP has been 20 years. I was also a bit late to the party, and now some 8 year olds who first got hooked have 8 year olds themselves to pass on their moldy old hardcovers. I noted her total sales "only" went up some $50 million from the time we were hooked when it was $400 million. And of course if Paul were around, he'd be reading the stories to grandkids of his own. Are we getting old, or what?

Chuck

On Jun 29, 2017, at 12:27 PM, Effie in the desert <wadesert@hotmail.com> wrote:

I hadn't thought about this play in a long, long time. Last night I was on the HP Lexicon searching for information about what kinds of beings and beasts had participated in the Battle of HW. It wasn't as easy of a task as I'd thought it would be. I wanted the information for a scene in my story.

I kept seeing quotes from characters with reference as "CCn.nn" where n.nn is a number. I couldn't place CC.

Here's one of them:

"We were capable of having children, but Astoria was frail. A blood malediction, a serious one. An ancestor was cursed... it showed up in her. You know how these things can resurface after generations... I didn’t want to risk her health, I said it didn’t matter whether the Malfoy line died with me – whatever my father said. But Astoria – she didn’t want a baby for the Malfoy name, for pure blood or glory, but for us. Our child, Scorpius was born... it was the best day of both our lives..."
-- Draco Malfoy (CC2.15)

https://www.hp-lexicon.org/character/greengrass-family/astoria-greengrass/

Whoa - I'm thinking. I have sketched out various scenes for my story taking it into the future 40-50 years. I didn't know what CC was, but anything in the Lexicon is canon. Something finally mentioned Cursed Child and I figured it out.

The following was added to my notes in January of 2014.

chap

January 2004

Draco comes to Snape because Astoria isn't pregnant after a whole year. Snape tells Draco that they both need a complete physical. Draco asks Why ME? Snape says it takes two to make a baby and if either has a fertility problem there will be no baby. After testing she starts taking a standard fertility potion.

Draco thinks Harry will tease him about the fertility issue. Snape says my master won't.

How can you defend him? Draco asks.

He's my master.

Oh, so the slave has to…

No, but I know him now.

chap

March 2004

Astoria and Draco come to Grimmauld Place to talk to Severus. Ginny is huge with her first child. It makes Astoria sad or is she jealous? She's taking the standard potion but wants the custom one. Snape has never made the custom fertility potion. He'll have to study up on it. In the meantime she is to keep taking the standard potion.

Healer told them there is a custom potion that can be made but few are capable of brewing it. It's very expensive. Many of the ingredients are rare. First the healer tells Draco it's very expensive. The young man scowls at the woman as if she's stupid. Who does she think she's talking to anyway? Cost is no object to a Malfoy. Then she says few are capable of brewing it. Few have the skill or knowledge. It would take a master potioneer. Draco says that's not a problem either. She perhaps even mentions that since Snape is gone, in servitude, owned by Potter. Draco's – that's not a problem either.

One of the rare ingredients is the brown algae Snape read about on 16 Jun 1998

Snape has found out it takes some time to cure the potion. He can have it ready by June. It's first a problem of getting the ingredients, then the brewing time, then the curing time. Snape as a slave cannot travel to get the items. Yet he needs to harvest it at the right cycle of the moon and immediately place it into a base already prepared. Draco must ask permission from Harry to allow his slave to accompany him to North America, California to be exact, in order to get what he needs to allow him to have a child.

I'd set the stage for this occurrence when I wrote the following. Long before Cursed Child I was planning on a problem pregnancy for Astoria.

16 Jun 1998

With a shake of the magazine, Severus tried to focus on an article about a breakthrough in fertility treatments using rare brown algae, similar to the more common Postelsia. The variant was recently found in a single tide pool on the west coast of North America but as of yet, nowhere else in the world. After the first few paragraphs, sleep won out over the algae.

I'll need to change the premature birth I'd planned because Albus & Scorpius are in the same year at HW, but otherwise I find it very interesting that canon and I are mostly on the same page. I decided it was about time for me to purchase Cursed Child. It's not a book but a script. I was finding multiple references and couldn't decide if there was multiple editions, updated, changed, corrected, or what. I never did figure that out.

What I did find is attached to this email. It came from this website:

https://archive.org/details/HarryPotterAndTheCursedChild_201607

I've not read the whole file yet. I have to get my ass up from this computer and get to the railroad museum. I will get it read before the end of the day.

<Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.pdf>
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